What We Do - UNRWA
UNRWA operates 706 elementary and preparatory schools in its five fields of operation, including eight secondary schools in Lebanon, providing free basic education for some 543,075 Palestine refugee children.
UNRWA's Palestinian Schools Have a Problem—and Are …
Nov 5, 2021 · Nearly 73 years later, UNRWA operates 58 refugee camps and 715 schools for more than half a million boys and girls in Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan.
UNRWA - Wikipedia
Per the longstanding agreement, UNRWA schools follow the curriculum of their host countries. This allows UNRWA pupils to progress to further education or employment holding locally recognised qualifications and complies with the sovereignty requirements of …
Education in the Gaza Strip - UNRWA
The UNRWA Education programme in Gaza is the largest of all UNRWA programs in the five fields, serving 291,100 students (150,608 males and 140,492 females) from Grades 1-9 in the 2021/2022 school year.
Classrooms turned to rubble: UNRWA official describes ... - UN …
Sep 16, 2024 · A school that once served as a place of learning and play for hundreds of children is now a refuge filled with tents and makeshift shelters for those displaced by the ongoing conflict in Gaza, a...
Education + Training - UNRWA USA
UNRWA operates 700+ elementary and preparatory schools in its five fields of operation, including eight secondary schools in Lebanon, providing free basic education for more than half a million Palestine refugee children.
Independent review panel releases final report on UNRWA
Apr 22, 2024 · An independent panel released its much-awaited report on Monday about the UN relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), providing 50 recommendations and noting that Israeli authorities have...
What We Do - UNRWA
UNRWA now has 709 schools, 530,000 students, eight vocational training centres, and two pre-service teacher training institutions. A key tenet of the UNRWA educational programme, and one which has been upheld since 1952, is to use the curriculum of the host countries.
Israel keeps bombing Gaza schools. Why do people still shelter …
Jul 18, 2024 · At least six United Nations-run schools serving as shelters for displaced Palestinians have been hit by Israeli attacks in the last 10 days. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)...
Gaza: UNRWA programme aims to get children ‘back to learning’
Aug 1, 2024 · The UN Palestine refugee agency, UNRWA, launched a programme on Thursday to get boys and girls in the Gaza Strip back to learning – and to just being children – amid the ongoing conflict.